Reading Log Week 14

Book: Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

Monday 2/6
Pages Read: 345- 376
Minutes Read: 30

Patterns

Shinji and Yutaka are killed by Kazuo after they encounter him near the school headquarters. The pattern that I notice is that whenever the students let down their guard for a second, they get killed or betrayed by their fellow classmates.

For example, when Kazuo came to spy on Shinji's plan, he saw Shinji talking to Keita and knew that it would be a perfect time to attack. Shinji was so preoccupied in getting rid of Keita, that he didn't notice that Kazuo had within a perfect shooting range.

Previously, when Yumiko and Yukiko believed that they could trust the classmates to come together to do something about the game, they ended up dead. Kazuo came to kill them because they made themselves clearly visible from the top of the mountain.

This pattern happened in some way in all of the deaths of the students so far. I predict that this is how it will continue on, until the victor is left standing.

Tuesday 2/7
Pages Read: 377- 408
Minutes Read: 30

Wednesday 2/8
Pages Read: 409- 424
Minutes Read: 20

Thursday 2/9
Pages Read: 425- 463
Minutes Read: 30

Ethics

Yuko highly suspects Shuya of killing Tatsumichi. As a result, she ends up poisoning the dish that is supposed to be served to Shuya. But another friend of Yuko's eats it without knowing. Yuko clearly made the wrong decision here. She ended up hurting her friends because she couldn't trust Shuya. As a result, her friends got into an argument as to who poisoned the dish, and all of them, except for Yuko end up dead. Her friends had no idea that Yuko could be this mean to kill someone by poison. Yuko has to pay for her sins and as a result ends up in the lighthouse with Shuya, where they battle each other to stay alive.